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anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: Xi Jinping decides to abolish presidential term limits

Some other disturbing signs from China: increasing military budget https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/06/china-splash-us175-bil..., kidnapping relatives of the reporters in other countries that exposed the uigher concentration camps http://m.dw.com/en/chinese-authorities-detain-relatives-of-r..., China literally banned words and letter n in social media https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/china-bans-n-xi-jinping-term..., China propping up dictator in Maldives and angering India https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/w..., China threatens to invade democratic Taiwan over us ties https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9503126

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: China is trying to police what people are saying about it around the world

There's censorship, and there's kidnapping/threats against citizens in other countries

"After U.S.-Based Reporters Exposed Abuses, China Seized Their Relatives"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang...

"Chinese Police Are Demanding Personal Information From Uighurs in France. Officials have threatened to detain relatives of those who don’t comply."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/02/chinese-police-are-secre...

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: How the West Got China Wrong

A reddit post from a student in China.

“ It's been 4 days now. I look around, everything looks the same, but I know, it's not the same world anymore. He choose to become a dictator officially maybe means nothing to most foreigners, but as a Chinese born and raised in this land, I know it's just the beginning of a series following "1984" episodes, and maybe even worse: Cultural Revolution 2.0. This may not happend in 10 years, but I live here, we live here, someday, something very bad is gonna happen again, and I can't do anything to stop or evade it.

A lot people around me seems calm and quite. Maybe they already learned to "shut up and having fun while you still can", or, maybe they are just like me: too shocked and depressed to think of anything to comment. I feel so helpless and scaried, it's like, how do I put this? sitting in a biulding which is on fire, you watch the black smokes and red flame coming from the bottom, but you can't find a way out of your room, there isn't any extinguisher in the room neither. All you can do is just sitting in the corner, hugging yourself tight, waiting for that momnent to come, in despair and silence.

sorry my English sucks, I tried my best to write in English. As a native Chinese, I can't stop to feel pessimistic about the future, hell, now I know we are doomed, it'll be easier to suffer if just push me off the building instead of letting me watch it burning for decades.“

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/80xttj/silence_this_...

And another one post from a student in China

"I’m studying in a university in China rn and holy fuck I thought I entered an alternate reality, my classmates were all talking and worrying about the issue on the internet few days ago before they were censored out but after that , no one dares to talk about it in the campus , it’s dead silence , I KNOW everyone cares but everyone is just so afraid , this is pretty much a 1984 scenario in real life and I don’t know what else can we do. I guess they have already won in this point . :("

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

Here is another post

“’m studying in a university in China rn and holy fuck I thought I entered an alternate reality, my classmates were all talking and worrying about the issue on the internet few days ago before they were censored out but after that , no one dares to talk about it in the campus , it’s dead silence , I KNOW everyone cares but everyone is just so afraid , this is pretty much a 1984 scenario in real life and I don’t know what else can we do. I guess they have already won in this point . :(”

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

> Native American > 150 years ago

Are you seriously whataboutism events from a few hundred years ago? Wow. Just wow.

People in China cannot speak. We have to speak for them somehow. Here is a snippet from a reddit post from a student in China.

“ It's been 4 days now. I look around, everything looks the same, but I know, it's not the same world anymore. He choose to become a dictator officially maybe means nothing to most foreigners, but as a Chinese born and raised in this land, I know it's just the beginning of a series following "1984" episodes, and maybe even worse: Cultural Revolution 2.0. This may not happend in 10 years, but I live here, we live here, someday, something very bad is gonna happen again, and I can't do anything to stop or evade it.

A lot people around me seems calm and quite. Maybe they already learned to "shut up and having fun while you still can", or, maybe they are just like me: too shocked and depressed to think of anything to comment. I feel so helpless and scaried, it's like, how do I put this? sitting in a biulding which is on fire, you watch the black smokes and red flame coming from the bottom, but you can't find a way out of your room, there isn't any extinguisher in the room neither. All you can do is just sitting in the corner, hugging yourself tight, waiting for that momnent to come, in despair and silence.

sorry my English sucks, I tried my best to write in English. As a native Chinese, I can't stop to feel pessimistic about the future, hell, now I know we are doomed, it'll be easier to suffer if just push me off the building instead of letting me watch it burning for decades.“

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

I know there are a lot of clamoring here about ‘oh we are becoming this too and that too’. And it’s a natural reaction: we feel like we cannot change anything about China and how it governs its people, so we try to stigmatize our own government. But the truth of the matter is US government is nowhere near the heavy handed ness of China, and we can deal with China to some degree. We can hold China to its actions. After reading about the uigher concentration camps in China, I feel like it’s time to take a stand. It’s time to stop supporting such a bad regime. Time to voice my concerns about China to my government, and vote with my wallet. No more Chinese products if I can. No more trips to Shanghai. I don’t want to help the government terrorize my friends in China anymore.

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps'

If we look back to WW2 and Nazi, US did still conduct trade with Nazi Germany, but the trade volume fell between 1929 to 1938, when US started putting up protectionist policy (soooo eerily similar to China today). when Nazi invaded Czechoslovakia, FDR slapped a 25% tariff on Nazi (but it wasn't an embargo).

Let's hope this time if China invades any country (Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam), we contain and hopefully counter right away.

anthonyleecook | 8 years ago | on: California Losing Residents via Domestic Migration

It's no wonder that high-earning individuals are moving into California. A few numbers I ran across on the web:

- Bay Area economy is growing 3X (!!!) faster than average in US.

- Santa Clara region has an income average of $98,000, top 5 amonst the nation

- Average salary for Software Engineers for San Francisco is $210,000

This of course doesn't bode well for mid to lower income citizens, who now have to move out as far as antioch or stockton to afford a home. Bad for a family of 4, still doable for singles that can room with roommates near work. We really do need to have more housing in regions that are underdeveloped and soon will be served by the BART extension, google's building foray in downtown san jose, buildout in the caltrain stops between Redwood City and South San Francisco, etc.

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